Stewart was riffing on a Friday Nov. 18 incident where two UC Davis campus’ police officers casually pepper sprayed a line of nonviolent students who refused to leave the campus quad. Students, who were protesting tuition hikes and income inequality, sat on the ground with their arms linked. In response, two police officers pepper sprayed students in the face. The entire incident was captured on video.

“I just want to remind you that the shapes the officer appears to be casually rust proofing are human peoples with eyes and lungs,” Stewart says of the video. “That is not a termite nest.”

“Who were those thugs? Who were these thugs being doused with what can only be described as Jersey-Shore levels of orange spray?” Stewart continues. “They are students. They are students engaged in a nonviolent protest.”

Campus police have said the officers were surrounded and in danger and were forced to use the pepper spray for their own safety. Stewart disagreed.

“Now there are situations where police are in danger in a crowd and they have a very difficult job in any of these situations,” he said. “But in those situations the police usually don’t have time to lay down primer and two coats of pepper spray, then stop, read the directions on the can, get it nice and mixed up. I’ve seen people tag Tupac murals in less time.”

Riffing on a similar use of pepper spray in New York City and an incident where a Black Friday shopper used pepper spray to get an XBox, Stewart said we’ve become too dependent on the caustic chemical.

“We’ve suddenly become a people that use pepper spray to alleviate minor inconveniences,” he said. “Pepper spray has become America’s car horn.”